Alberto Cerritos was born in San Salvador. He graduated from la Escuela de Pintura
de la Dirección General de Bellas Artes de El Salvador in 1967 and from la Academia Nacional
de Escultura Uquxkah in 1970. His small bronze sculptures maintain a direct relationship with
his stone monuments throughtheir unity of form and space. From his small drawings to his large
canvasses, his work is caracterized by a strong and personal symbolism, combined with a new and
free sense of figuration.
His work has been presented in group and solo shows in San Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico D.F.,
Monterrey, Puebla, Oaxaca, Guadalajara, New York, Montreal, Toronto, Chicago, San Francisco
and Vancouver.
In 1993 he travelled in a cultural Canadian tour to West Africa for exhibitions and painting
murals to Nigeria, Cameroun, Ghana, Ivory Coast and Senegal.
He has been a member of the Sociedad de Artistas Plasticos Mexicanos (SOMART) since 1987,
and of Arts in Action Society from 1989 to 1993.
Actually he is a member of (UNARTES) The Salvadorian Society for Artists and Writers as well
of (COMAV) The World Visual Arts Council. He represents both of them in Canada.
Since 1995 up to date he has been dedicated to develop Digital Art
as well to the research and developments of an Aesthetics for the Third
Millennium and Complex Art.
His artworks from the last five years (1998-2003) include the digital
publishing of:NARCISSUS GUIDE (Essay)TEATRALIA (Theatre)HELIOTROPOS (Prose)
DIGITALIS: LA MUSA INNUMERABLE (Diary-Manifiesto)
and DIGIMURALS, DIGISCULPTURE, EYES, ZERO, PUERTA ROJA (3D).